Somehow this thread zinged off into County retirement. Here is the link to the County retirement financials and actuarials. Good luck as lots of information. I get $400 per month retirement from...

Great. Glad you are supporting the Park. I was able to assist current effort by obtaining $5,000 from the Community Foundation. Memory fine. Just differ on fact. It was really too small to benefit...

Update on Ernie's Assessment of the Hopkins Campaign: Firstly, it's getting weird out there. Would like to be a fly on the wall when Hopkins learned that her campaign manager/consultant/handler Bob...

The Board of Supervisors has the power to adopt standards regarding vineyard development and their environmental impact. The County of Sonoma bends over backwards to assist vineyards. Regulations are...

I offer my opponents a bargain; if they stop telling lies about us, I will stop telling the truth about them.
(Adlai Stevenson, 1952)

I will cry "Ouch" or "Uncle". Your questions are all good....

Your comments are on point and show understanding. Not sure what Noreen had to do with County pension problems. I have traced that back to a certain decision of a lame duck Board of Supervisor. That...

Not exactly laughing out loud but chuckling. Best attack by an Avatar ever!
Erneman

It's Ernie. Thanks for the lesson in political morality.

Politics is not an ideal debate form. It has evolved in North American as a peculiar art. Donald Derump has expanded the parameters to dangerous ground. Certainly, politics is not for the faint of...

Dr. Shepherd,
I go plant my Bodega Reds (Harmony Farm Supply get them now), fix the fence, hang a gate. hang with the pigs for awhile, visit with friends in the sun, go the the gym, the Jewish...

Shepherd,
There is nothing untrue regarding my comments. Negativity in politics is about telling untruths.This is a thread that calls for opinion. You have my opinion. I do not want another...

I try not to think about her. I think about the future of the Fifth District and the County. Do we need another untried person who moved into the District to seek office? How did that work out with...

It's a little more complicated. Your recycling needs are met if you have pick up from a collection vehicle, put in the blue can. It is the "buy back" centers that are troubled. These buybacks are not...

Candidate Hopkins,
As long as you understand that I have in no way criticized your values, ability to choose, your farming, your family, children, grass roots, your goats and alpacas, your pets, and...

"You can fool some of the people some of the time...." (anon. but attributed to Lincoln)

Candidate Hopkins,
Thank you for responding. I admire that you are a mother with two children. There was...

Well, one candidate may be more progressve than the other. Hopkins is an unknown except she was encouraged and supported by the Fourth District Supervisor James Gore, to move into the district nine...

Here is the link to the Sonoma County Waste management Agency
https://www.recyclenow.org/
Click on Agency and Waste Profile for interesting material. The Recycle Guide tells all about recycle...

Here goes: The comment on split body trucks is accurate. The recycling is in one big barrel and trash in the other barrel. A hydraulic mechanism moves the door between and compacts the material. One...

Recycling in America changed when China dropped "The Green Curtain". Basically, they are not taking dirty or valueless plastic in China. A couple of years ago they turned back ships full of plastic...

https://www.sonoma-county.org/prmd/docs/zoning/index.htm

Above is the link to the Sonoma County Zoning Code. All development has to follow this code. You can just read the Definitions in 26-140-02...

I do not have any prejudice against small houses. The issues I raise are real in the government planning organizations plus there are economic factors-e.g with the price of land in Sonoma County, who...

I have always been a proponent of strict agricultural zoning that disallows the proliferation of housing. Why? it is the only way to save this land and keep Sonoma County from looking like Contra...

Called Traci Tesconi, County project planner, to get the status of the Dairyman (Dairyland) project. It is just at the beginning stage where the project description is mailed to agencies and their...

This project is clearly too big and too industrial for farmland and the Laguna location in particular. I plan to comment according to CEQA so that I am part of the record for environmental...

"These ends it endeavored to accomplish by a Federal Government, in which each State was recognized as an equal, and had separate control over its own institutions. The right of property in slaves...

I didn't read Rollie's article nor do I follow the Palm Drive saga closely. However, when I read the pro-hospital comments there is a fair bit of wishful thinking and lots of fantasy. Don't get me...

Freud? How about Darwin? This male thing has been explained by many. Bottom line is most men learn and know where their brain is located but apparently not all. I would argue for better education so...

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Recently, I met up with my friend, famous local en plein aire artist Bill Wheeler, at the Union Hotel in Occidental. It was Community Night which features spaghetti...

I know a bit about chickens. My job as a kid was to gather eggs and take care of the chickens. Some relatives have thousands of them in commercial houses today. Yes, raised for meat. Came to Sonoma...

by Ernie Carpenter
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https://www.waccobb.net/forums/waccobb/keep90days/2013-04-16_12-19-50.pngSix years ago the Board of Supervisors decided to sell the Sonoma County Central Landfill...

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https://www.waccobb.net/forums/waccobb/keep90days/2013-02-28_11-49-33.pngPeople have asked “Killed over marijuana?” Recently, there has been little good news with home...

https://www.waccobb.net/forums/waccobb/keep90days/2013-01-17_1156.pngGeorge was a longtime friend and fellow traveler. He was part Choctow Native-American and always had a strong reverence for the...

Uhhhh..just to correct history and I love Ghandi but don't forget the Kyber tribesman and the raging bullets flying against the British. Ghandi was the final straw, not the beginning of Britain's...

by Ernie Carpenter
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Congressman Mike Thompson, newly appointed Chair of the Gun Violence Prevention Task Force by House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, held a Hearing in Santa Rosa at the Board...

Last night around 7:30 p.m., the Board of Supervisors voted 5-0 to leave the medicinal marijuana regulations as is. There are still problems as identified by the County like growing in abandoned...

Oh my God. From Barlow to dog bites smaller dog and a plethora of personal stuff. Y'all should go have a beer, tea, valium and talk about all this. I am leaving this thread because I 1) don't care...

Alert: Board of Supervisors to Turn Marijuana Ordinance Upside down
by Ernieman

A secret and small committee ofCounty personnel known as the Ad Hoc Committee on Medicinal Marijuana and headed by...

As Dwight D. Eisenhower once said "I question your wisdom, not your motive." Please enough of the who dun'it stuff as it is not helpful, enlightening or interesting. Carry on your fight privately but...

Tried to send private message but no banana squash. Contact me [email protected]

I am totally up with this discussion and appreciate that Barlow is willing to have a public discussion. The term Farmer's Market leads one to conclude it rivals, resembles the current Sunday market...

It is important to support local growers. I hesitate to call them farmers as local farmers are too conservative and use too many chemicals. So natural and organic local growers are the who.
Are we...

Dear Ones,

https://i.imgur.com/WfOrV.jpgThere are some differences between the incumbent and I. Enough that I decided to once again become a candidate for Fifth District Supervisor. My motivation...

Ernie Carpenter posted a very clear statement regarding why he is running for Efren's seat.

I moved it to our article section. See it here: Why I am running for the Board of Supervisors.

Barry

Ernie Carpenter
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Here is a report from the April, Santa Rosa Wine Industry conference. It is official folks; the wine industry is eying the coast for cheap lands and the next big boom...

I have been an environmental and government consultant to several local companies the past several years. The last three years I have worked for North Bay that has the collection contracts....

Forest Conversions
Ernie Carpenter
The last two years I served on the Board of Supervisors (1995-1997) the Board established under my leadership a Local Task Force to propose local timber harvest...

Hmmmmm. Whom can we trust? How is it that government ends up bad? Where is there a better form of democracy. When I ran for public office I used the phrase "Government is always working for someone....

Firstly, I support Occupy and what it is about. I have concerns and I hear concerns from many quarters. I share this conversation that I had with Shepherd at the Occupy Sebastopol Meeting January 9...

Readers should be aware that City of Sebastopol has a Noise Ordinance. Theoretically, what one wants and feels about 'sound' or music doesn't matter. The Ordinance makes it incumbent upon the...

I attended the March. It was a good experience. I intend to return this weekend. I was wearing my End the War in Vietnam buttons and Civil Rights buttons. Many of the demonstrators were born after...